"Cheek kissing" between men in Mongolia

8/31/2016 8:28:28 PM

I am from Mongolia. Mongolian’s do tend to sniff cheeks as a lovely gesture. For example, I would sniff my parent’s cheeks and my family’s cheeks.

5/16/2015 9:42:00 AM

Traditionally Mongolians don’t kiss, they do kind of sniffing. I find it nicer and cleaner rather than to be kissed and feel someone’s saliva on my cheek.

12/18/2013 3:13:13 AM

Yes, it is. You can read so on some pages, for example this one:

Mongolians greeting one another rarely kiss each other on the cheek. An older person will often grasp the head of a one younger during the greeting and smell their hair or face.

This book has a whole section of the meaning of body odors in the Mongolian culture.

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